Timothy Findley Creates a fictional world through his novels, where readers can relate to the situations and characters. The protagonists Findley creates are often similar and related to the difficulties they eventually encounter and overcome or those by which they are defeated. Findley takes his readers back in time to World War I, displaying his knowledge of history and research, where the difficulties of a young soldier's internal and external struggles are brought to the reader's attention in his historical fiction novel The Wars. Findley writes about the reality and absurdity of World War I and takes the reader on a journey through the process of active reading to find what is "sane" and "insane" throughout the novel. Following the journey of the protagonist, Robert Ross as he enlists in the Canadian army after the death of his sister Rowena, this is undoubtedly the turning point of the text and ideally the moment where Findley initiates the process of active reading and where the content is placed in Findley's story, are analyzed and formulated based on the reader's perception and subjectivity of the truth. Essayist Anne Reynolds writes: "Findley manages, through his technical prowess, to combine Hemingway's choices of clear moments of searing horror and truth on the battle front with scenes depicting the effects of war on the families and lovers of soldiers. » (Reynolds, 4 years old) According to Reynolds, Findley was able to show the absurdity and effect that not only the First World War caused, but also the ridicule that war in general caused to soldiers' families and to society as a whole. Using the literary theory of deconstruction, many aspects and storylines of the Wars can be analyzed, while End...... middle of paper ...... was dead. Like that." (Findley, 103-104) Perhaps this scene is where readers change their perception of death, change their "truths" and how death is perceived. Harris' death proves that the death even though it is sometimes frightening; there are times when death is nothing to fear. Findley deconstructs the aspect of death in these sections to prove that death is more than just "dying", and that death. “death” can also be peaceful and valued just as much as life. Thus Findley deconstructs life and death by justifying that death can be just as pleasant and meaningful as life. , Timothy Findley also deconstructs what is “evil and good” Works cited HOTTOIS, Gilbert, From the Renaissance to Postmodernity, A history of modern and contemporary philosophy, Paris and Brussels: De Boeck and Larcier., 1998